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Re: Emotional Plague
John M Crump (jmcrump@uncc.edu)
20 Apr 1995 06:29:01 GMT
In article <D793Jo.Cu6@cruzio.com>, <mgt@cruzio.com> wrote:
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>Letter to the LA Times
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>Peter M. Nardi claimed in your letters column that the ever-increasing
>suicide rate among teen-agers results in part from the social prejudice faced
>by teen-age Gays and Lesbians.
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>Gays and Lesbians make up only about 1-to-10% of the population at most
>(different polls yield different statistics) but a much larger minority makes
>up approximately 48% of the population -- namely, males. And this much larger
>minority confronts group libel and stereotyping every day of their lives, in
>the form of the "respectable" "politically correct" Androphobia of our times.
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>Androphobia (as preached by Glorie Steinem, Andrea Dworkin etc.) transfers to
>all males the negative stereotypes that the Ku Klux Klan assigns only to
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>Black males: mental inferiority, emotional childishness, brutality, sub-human
>status, criminality, sexual violence etc. -- everything but "a great sense of
>rhythm."
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>It should come as no surprise, in a society where Androphobia is the one
>"respectable" form of bigotry, that the suicide rate of male teen-agers ranks
>FOUR TIMES HIGHER than that of females.
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>In the early '20s, when people are grappling most painfully with sex role
>identity, the male suicide rate soars to SIX TIMES THAT OF FEMALES.
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>72% OF ALL SUICIDES ARE COMMITTED BY WHITE MALES
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>(U.S. Department of Health statistics.)
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>If anybody cares to argue that Androphobia plays no role in these awful
>statistics, just imagine a society in which red-heads, instead of some
>traditional minority, were stigmatized as mentally inferior, emotionally
>unstable, probably criminal etc. Would you feel surprised to find a high
>suicide rate among red-heads in such an environment?
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>HEY HEY! HO HO! ANDROPHOBIA HAS TO GO!
>GAY OR STRAIGHT, MALES ARE GREAT! BALLS ARE NO EXCUSE TO HATE!
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>Hot Shot Ralston
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gee and what if you were gay and Red-headed....
One can only imagine ;)
Mike
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